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CfP for Academic MindTrek 2010 in Tampere, Finland on 6th-8th October<br />
2010 is open. This year there are five theme categories: social media,<br />
ubiqutous and ambient media, digital games, open source and Media<br />
Business, Media Production and Media Management.<br /> <br />
Entended due date for short paper, poster and tool demonstration<br />
submissions is 6th June 2010.<br /> <br />
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Academic MindTrek 2010:<br />
Call for Papers, Tutorials and Workshops<br />
6th - 8th October, 2010<br />
Tampere, Finland<br /> <br />
confirmed keynote speakers (more are to come):<br /> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.mindtrek.org">http://www.mindtrek.org</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.mindtrek.org/2010/academic">http://www.mindtrek.org/2010/academic</a><br /> <br />
In cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGMM and ACM SIGCHI publications will be<br />
published in the ACM digital library and a selected set of high-level<br />
contributions will published as book chapters or in journals<br /> <br />
See CfP in PDF-format:<br /> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.mindtrek.org/2010/sites/default/files/1st%20CfP_corrected.pdf">http://www.mindtrek.org/2010/sites/default/files/1st%20CfP_corrected.pdf</a><br /> <br />
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Academic MindTrek 2010 Call for Papers, Demonstrations, Tutorials and<br />
Workshops<br /> <br />
We are pleased to invite you to the Academic MindTrek conference from<br />
6th - 8th October 2010, which brings together a cross-disciplinary crowd<br />
of people to investigate current and emerging topics of media in the<br />
ubiquitous arena. Among the media to be discussed, will be business,<br />
social, technical and content-related topics.<br /> <br />
September 6th is the main Academic day, featuring the following themes:<br /> <br />
Social Media<br />
“Get social!” Social media and Web 2.0 technologies are applied in ever<br />
diverse practices both in private and public communities. Totally new<br />
business models are emerging, traditional communication and expression<br />
modalities are challenged, and new practices are constructed in the<br />
collaborative, interactive media space.<br /> <br />
Ambient and Ubiquitous Media<br />
“The medium is the message!” – This conference track focuses on the<br />
definition of ambient and ubiquitous media with a cross-disciplinary<br />
viewpoint: ambient media between technology, art, and content. The focus<br />
of this track is on applications, theory, art-works, mixed reality<br />
concepts, the Web 3.0, and user experiences that make ubiquitous and<br />
ambient media tick.<br /> <br />
Digital Games<br />
The culture and business of digital games is becoming increasingly<br />
varied. The current trends range from novel interface innovations and<br />
digital distribution channels to social game dynamics and<br />
player-generated content. The games track is open for theoretical works,<br />
empirical case studies and constructive projects.<br /> <br />
Open Source<br />
Open source software is gaining momentum in several forms. In addition<br />
to the huge increase in the number of open source projects started and<br />
the remarkable rise of FLOSS adoption by companies, new models of<br />
participation in the movement are emerging rapidly.<br /> <br />
Media Business, Media Production and Media Management<br />
Media business and media management face the challenges of the emergence<br />
of new forms of digital media. This theme focuses on business studies,<br />
policies, practices, and organizational structure of media firms. It<br />
discusses competition, patterns of media usage, advertising models, and<br />
how traditional media can cope with the challenges coming from digital<br />
media focusing on media business and media management issues.<br /> <br />
In addition, special academic sessions (e.g. tutorials, demonstrations,<br />
workshops, and multidisciplinary sessions) will be held on Oct 7th &<br />
8th, parallel to the MindTrek business conference. Academic speakers<br />
and authors are warmly welcome to attend the business conference tracks<br />
as part of the academic conference fee during these days as well.<br /> <br />
The MindTrek Association hosts MindTrek as a yearly conference, where<br />
the Academic MindTrek conference has been a part of this unique set of<br />
events comprising competitions, world famous keynote speakers, plenary<br />
sessions, media festivals, and workshops since 1997. It is a meeting<br />
place where experts and thinkers present results from their latest work<br />
regarding the development of Internet, interactive media, and the<br />
information society. MindTrek brings together researchers and<br />
practitioners from diverse disciplines that are involved in the<br />
development of media in various fields, ranging from sociology and the<br />
economy, to technology.<br /> <br />
The organising committee invites you to submit original high quality<br />
full papers, long or short, addressing the special theme and the topics,<br />
for presentation at the conference and inclusion in the proceedings.<br /> <br />
Academic MindTrek 2010 offers a wider spectrum of topic areas that<br />
previously, and we are looking forward for:<br /> <br />
- case-studies (successful, and especially unsuccessful ones)<br />
- oral presentation of fresh and innovative ideas<br />
- artistic installations and running system prototypes<br />
- user-experience studies and evaluations<br />
- technological novelties, evaluations, and solutions<br />
- scientific, business, or media oriented contributions<br />
- proposals for own workshops.<br /> <br />
Paper Proposals<br />
All submissions will be peer-reviewed double blinded, therefore please<br />
remove any information that could give an indication of the authorship.<br />
The scientific part of the conference is organized in cooperation with<br />
ACM SIGMM, and ACM SIGCHI. Conference proceedings will be published in<br />
the ACM Digital Library. Selected high quality papers will be published<br />
in international journals, as book chapters, edited books, or via open<br />
access journals. There will also be a reward for the overall best paper<br />
from the academic conference.<br /> <br />
Workshop Proposals<br />
Feel free to suggest workshops which are co-organized with MindTrek<br />
2010. Workshop proposals should include the organizing committee, a 1<br />
page description of the theme of the workshop, a short CV of organizers,<br />
duration, the proceedings publisher, and the schedule. Workshop<br />
organizers also have the possibility to add publications to the main<br />
conference proceedings.<br /> <br />
Tutorial Proposals<br />
Tutorial proposals should include a 2-page description of the tutorial,<br />
intended audience, a short CV, timetable, required equipment,<br />
references, and a track record of previous tutorials. The target length<br />
of tutorials is 2 hours.<br /> <br />
Submission Deadlines<br /> <br />
- 9th May: Deadline for long papers, workshops and tutorial proposals<br />
(6-8 pages)<br />
- 6th June: submission of short papers and poster presentations (3-4 pages)<br />
- 30th July: paper submission deadline for workshops<br />
- 1st August: Camera ready papers and copyright forms – critical deadline<br /> <br />
Key-Dates<br /> <br />
- 15th May: notification for workshops & tutorials<br />
- 28th May: notification of acceptance/rejection for long papers<br />
- 24th June: notification of short papers and posters<br />
- 6th-8th October 2010: MindTrek academic conference<br /> <br />
Conference Themes<br /> <br />
1. Social Media<br /> <br />
- business models, service models, and policies<br /> <br />
- social media in innovation and business<br />
- intra- and interorganizational use of social media<br />
- questions related to identity, motivation and values<br />
- blogs, wikis, collaboration and social platform designs in practice<br />
- knowledge management and learning with social media<br />
- experience management with social media<br />
- crowdsourcing, user-created content and social networks<br />
- enterprise 2.0 and social computing in work organizations<br />
- evaluation and research methods of social media<br />
- social media and community design<br />
- benefits and limitations of social media applications<br /> <br />
2. Ambient and Ubiquitous Media - between Technology, Services, and Art<br /> <br />
- applications and services utilizing ubiquitous and pervasive technology<br />
- ubicom in eLearning, leisure, storytelling, art works, advertising,<br />
and mixed reality contexts<br />
- next generation user interfaces, ergonomics, multimodality, and<br />
human-computer interaction<br />
- art works for smart public or indoor spaces, mobile phones, museums,<br />
or cultural applications<br />
- context awareness, sensor perception, context sensitive internet, and<br />
smart daily objects<br />
- personalization, multimodal interaction, smart user interfaces, and<br />
ergonomics<br />
- ambient human computer interaction, experience design, usability, and<br />
audience research<br />
- software, hardware, middleware, and technologies for pervasive and<br />
ubiquitous<br />
- theoretical methods and algorithms in ubiquitous and ambient systems<br />
- business models, service models, media economics, regulations,<br />
x-commerce, and policies<br /> <br />
3. Digital Games<br /> <br />
- theoretical and analytical approaches on games and play<br />
- analysis of player experience<br />
- game design research<br />
- economy and business models in the game industry<br />
- innovation in and around games<br />
- digital distribution of games<br />
- online gaming<br />
- social and casual gaming<br />
- player-created content<br />
- pervasive and ubiquitous gaming<br />
- mobile and cross-media gaming<br /> <br />
4. Open Source<br /> <br />
- establishment of an open source community<br />
- practices on developing open source software<br />
- practices for maintaining a successful project<br />
- open source software processes<br />
- differences on open source and closed source software<br />
- using open source in commercial context<br />
- quality aspects in open source software<br />
- teaching open source software in academia and industry<br /> <br />
5. Media Business and Media Management<br /> <br />
- media policy, politics, practices, conception, and media regulation<br />
- organizational structures, practices, and strategies<br />
- production technology, processes, and optimization<br />
- business models, service models, public funding, and media economics<br />
- patterns of media use, engagement, and consumer experiences<br />
- advertising, media consumption, new audience models, and media user models<br />
- competition analysis, media governing, assessment, performance indicators<br />
- business and media management in new media genres: gaming, social<br />
media, Internet, digital cinema, iTV<br />
- traditional media business and management: broadcasting, publishing,<br />
journalism, and movie industry<br />
- innovative service designs, strategies, and ideas<br />
- teaching & training of media management and media business<br /> <br />
Paper Submission<br /> <br />
- Please follow the style guidelines on<br /> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates">http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates</a> for<br />
formatting your position paper and final paper.<br />
- Note that since the papers will be published by ACM, all authors need<br />
to sign an ACM copyright form. (For further guidelines see:<br /> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.acm.org/pubs/copyright_form.html">http://www.acm.org/pubs/copyright_form.html</a>)<br />
- Submit papers here www.mindtrek.org/cfp<br /> <br />
Organizing Committee<br /> <br />
General Chair<br /> <br />
Artur Lugmayr, Tampere Univ. of Technology (TUT), FIN<br /> <br />
Programme Chairs<br /> <br />
Heljä Franssila, Tampere Univ. (UTA), FIN<br />
Olli Sotamaa, Tampere Univ. (UTA), FIN<br />
Christian Safran, TU Graz, AUT [tentative, not confirmed]<br />
Timo Aaltonen, Tampere Univ. of Technology (TUT), FIN<br /> <br />
Theme chair: Social Media<br /> <br />
Hannu Kärkkäinen, Tampere Univ. of Technology (TUT), FIN<br /> <br />
Theme chair: Open Source<br /> <br />
Björn Lundell, University of Skövde, SE<br /> <br />
Theme chair: Ambient Media<br /> <br />
Jukka Vanhala, Tampere Univ. of Technology (TUT), FIN<br /> <br />
(alternative: Eija Kaasinen, VTT, FIN)<br /> <br />
Theme chair: Media Business, Economics and Management<br /> <br />
Artur Lugmayr, Tampere Univ. of Technology (TUT), FIN<br /> <br />
(alternative needed)<br /> <br />
Theme chair: Digital Games<br /> <br />
Anders Drachen, IT University Copenhagen, DK<br /> <br />
Demonstration chair<br /> <br />
Imed Hammouda, Tampere Univ. of Technology (TUT), FIN<br /> <br />
Publicity chair<br /> <br />
Theresa Champel, Univ. of Lisbon, PT<br /> <br />
Workshop Chair<br /> <br />
Anders S. Løvlie, Univ. of Oslo, NO<br /> <br />
Tutorial chair<br /> <br />
Pertti Näränen, Tampere Univ. of Applied Sciences (TAMK), FIN<br /> <br />
Local Arragement Chair and Conference Management<br /> <br />
Karen Thorburn, Hermia, FIN<br /> <br />
Contact<br /> <br />
Questions concerning academic content, papers, tutorials, workshops,<br />
scientific contributions:<br /> <br />
Email: academic.chairs (at) mindtrek.org<br /> <br />
General questions concerning payments, administration, copyright forms,<br />
local arrangements, and the venue:<br /> <br />
Email: academic.info (at) mindtrek.org<br /> <br />
Submit papers here<br /> <br />
www.mindtrek.org/cfp<br /> <br />
Further Information<br /> <br /> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.mindtrek.org">http://www.mindtrek.org</a><br /> <br />
Supported by:<br /> <br />
City of Tampere, Nokia Oyj, Ubiquitous Computing Cluster, Tampere<br />
University of Technology, Tampere University, TAMK University of Applied<br />
Sciences, Technology Centre Hermia, Neogames, Digibusiness cluster,<br />
Sombiz and COSS The Finnish Centre for Open Source Solutions, Ambient<br />
Media Association (AMEA).<br />
--<br /> <br />
Heljä Franssila<br />
project manager<br />
Department of Information Studies and Interactive Media (INFIM)<br />
University of Tampere<br />
Finland<br />
GSM +358 50 5749725<br /> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/infim/">http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/infim/</a><br />
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Sanna Talja<br />
Senior researcher, Institute of Social Research<br />
Unit of Advanced Study, and <br />
Associate professor/lecturer, <br />
Department of Information Studies and Interactive Media (INFIM)<br />
University of Tampere<br /> <br />
FIN-33014 University of Tampere<br />
Finland<br />
email: sanna.k.talja at uta.fi<br />
Homepage <a target="_blank" href="http://www.info.uta.fi/talja">http://www.info.uta.fi/talja</a><br />
phone: +358 (0)40 595 8919 (mobile)<br />
phone: +358 (0)3 3551 6996 (office)<br />
fax: +358 (0)3 3551 6560<br /> <br />
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